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Our 2015 show introduces two new additions to the weekend. Our Wine & Cheese pavilion will introduce the wines of Maine and cheeses from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. A wonderful opportunity to sample and purchase great wines and cheeses our region has to offer. A silent auction to benefit local charities is also in the planning stage. Expect to see more information on our website and social media as we introduce the exhibitors who generously donate to this worthy cause. The always popular Meet The Chefs Cooking Series presents The Art of Creative Cooking for the 2015 series. With invited chefs, the series is always a crowd-pleaser. The popularity of the series continues and we have added another tent outside for more outdoor grilling and cooking demonstrations. Fryeburg Fairgrounds is richly endowed with exposition halls. This show encompasses seven of them with more than 350 booths and tents filled with innovative businesses and artisans. “We have assembled a unique mix of quality exhibitors, speakers, artists, crafters and landscape displays. Our exhibitors are here to help enlighten attendees to the newest energy saving products on the market, others to showcase their amazing talent in landscape and gardening expertise,� says Karla Ficker, Show Producer. “If it is information you are seeking for the
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“SPIRIT of Spring, thy coverlet of snow Hath fallen from thee, with its fringe of frost, And where the river late did overflow Sway fragile white anemones, wind-tost, And in the woods stand snowdrops, half asleep, With drooping heads— sweet dreamers so long lost”. from “The Waking of Spring” by Olive Custance (b. 1874)
As the snow finally starts to melt and the temperatures begin to warm, it’s time to start to think about spring cleaning your garden. Check your inventory of garden tools and supplies. Clean your tools thoroughly and scrub off any rust that might have accumulated. You can put a light coat of mineral oil on the tools once they are clean, this will help to prevent rust build-up. Make sure the blades are all sharp and in good condition on your shears, lawn mower, weed whackers and hedge trimmers. If they need replacement or sharpening, you should be able to accomplish
that at a home improvement center or garden center in the area. Lastly, make sure to check expiration dates on your garden sprays and chemicals and throw away those that are no longer useable. After checking and cleaning your garden tools and supplies, you’ll want to begin the obvious clean-up of fallen branches and debris from the winter months. You’ll then want to remove and compost any leftover annual plants from the winter. Perennials will need to be tended to as well. As soon as you start to see new growth on the plants, you can remove any dead leaves and stalks and prune the perennials down to the ground exposing the new leaves. Raking is an important task that will help to prevent leaf diseases in your garden. Old leaves and mulch from last year’s garden can carry mildew and spores that can infect this year’s
plants and flowers. By removing old leaves and mulch from your garden, you will help ensure that your plants stay healthy and strong. However, if raking proves to be too formidable a task, another trick is to cover up the leaves with a thick layer of new mulch. Mulch will help your garden look fresh and clean and can produce a similar effect to raking in terms of preventing leaf diseases. An important part of spring cleaning your garden is pruning. It’s always a good idea to wait until after the severe frosts to assess and prune your garden plants. You’ll want to prune plants that have old, diseased or broken stems or those that simply are growing wayward. A good pair of pruning shears is essential to get the job done right. Spring cleaning your garden also involves maintenance tasks such as repairing any fencing around your garden area See garden on 8
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DEAR TIM: I purchased a piece of property that has a 150-year-old garage in bad shape. It’s got a dirt floor. The roof is shot. It leaked so badly that in some places the wood roof sheathing is completely missing. The rafters that support the sheathing seem undersized and are not rotted for some reason. It’s a sorry-looking garage and I wonder if I should just tear it down and start over. Is there hope in a situation like this? What do you look for to decide if it’s too far gone? If I decide to just repair it, what would you do to restore it? --Walter G., Granite Falls, Minn. DEAR WALTER: You first sentence contains a valuable clue that would help me guide my decision. That garage was built a long time ago. If the exposed rafters are not rotted and most of the other framing and siding is in good shape, that tells me it probably was framed with old-growth timber that’s nearly impossible to find. Much of that wood is naturally rot resistant. For that reason alone, I’d do everything possible
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and time. Once plumb, you just install some new diagonal bracing to hold it in place. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what this garage is whispering in your ear. It has withstood brutal, heavy snows for well over 100 years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been punished by fierce windstorms, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still there. Some modern garages I see built wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it 50 years. While the roof rafters may appear undersized, they probably are not. The lumber species may be a super strong one. You can bolster the rafters by installing secondary horizontal framing members called collar ties. These help strengthSee builder on 8
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They either are vulnerable to insect damage (cabbage and cauliflower), have special needs (onions need more than 14 hours of sun in order to form large bulbs) , or occupy a short season (spinach goes to seed when the weather turns warm). 5.Eggplant and the melon family might be long-shots depending on the season. These will be successful some years (hot and dry) and dismal others. There are many more unusual vegetables that you might want to eat. Read up on them and decide how much
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your family and yourself. Follow all the recommendations at the EPA website about how to deal with lead paint on exterior surfaces (www.epa.gov/ lead/). If this were my garage, I’d take extensive photos and video of each step of the restoration process. Future owners of your property will really appreciate seeing the makeover happen and they’ll appreciate knowing where buried and hidden things might be in case they need to service these things at a future time. Be sure to include a cool time capsule in the concrete floor. Make it out of a waterproof sturdy plastic jar and bury it with just an inch of concrete cover in a corner of the garage. Mark the outline of the jar in the wet concrete and put this in the wet concrete: Time Capsule - Placed XX / XX / XXXX (the date you pour the slab). Future owners will one day open it and have a great time looking at a newspaper, coins and any other period items you place in the jar. A time capsule is a great fun project to build if you have young children.
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